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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - J

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun

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Music
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Jacques Barzun
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Principles
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. – Henri Matisse

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Art

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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Art

…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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Art

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx

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Art

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Whats funny is that the idea of popularity – even the use of the word popular – is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. – Susan Orlean

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My uncles a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, Thats cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer. – Lena Dunham

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Im not giving up my history and what Ive done in my music because I love it and Im very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. – LL Cool J

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